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“The crowds took us all by surprise!” Jill White, co-owner of T&J’s Dairy Barn in Burgess said. And why not? The lovingly restored and maintained antique cars of the Memory Lane Car Club members displayed in the Classic Cars parking lot at the south side of the restaurant drew in admirers and friends of Lancaster/Northumberland Habitat on Saturday night, August 1.
Bruce Craig, Volunteer Coordinator for ...

Rappahannock Community College’s newly renovated educational facility, located at 11825 New Kent Highway in New Kent County, will host an Open House from 3 to 7 p.m. on Friday, August 14. This will be a great opportunity to meet RCC faculty and staff, tour the premises, and learn how the college can serve community needs. Refreshments and activities for the whole family will be provided, ...

NAVAL WEAPONS STATION YORKTOWN, Va. (AP) — In the backyards of some of the Navy’s top officers at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a long-lost Indian tribe’s leaders called the same space home.
The Kiskiak Indian Tribe was once part of the powerful Powhatan chiefdom in southeastern Virginia, but the tribe disappeared from the historical record by the 1630s after English colonists ...

FBI agent Wendell Cosenza, an expert in tracking cellphone movement, presented evidence that showed the movements of Claudine Gifford’s cell phone. On July 6th 2014, Cosenza was able to place both Kessler’s, as well as Gifford’s, phones at Windmill Point Marina. The two had last been seen together at the Tiki Bar, a beach bar at the marina. Despite Kessler’s claims that the two had ...

On WTOP’s “Ask The Govenor,” a Virginia radio show, Gov. Terry McAullife expressed concern over admissions practices of Virginia colleges. “Some are a third to 40 percent out-of-staters because they pay so much more tuition, and that’s how they balance their budgets, so yes they should be concerned and that’s something we need to look at,” McAuliffe said.
The data itself is not so black ...

At approximately 7:00 p.m. on August 2nd; The Northumberland County Sheriff’s department received information that a shooting had occurred in the 1000 block of Light St. The victims were identified as Darvell Kelly and Kendrick Diggs; both were Northumberland County residents.
, also known as “Lil’ Wac” is being sought as a person of interest in this case. He is 6’4″, between 165 and 175 pounds, ...